I thought Riot is all about counterplay and stuffs

Arcana Lancer·3/5/2016, 9:07:19 AM·5 votes·805 views

Yet this item item 3124 is the very definition of what lack of counterplay is:

  • Allows tanks to deal massive amount of damage with just 2 damage items
  • Yeah, dodge that right click
  • Combination of magic and physical damage, on top of that being AoE
  • Promotes passive playstyle: "just farm until you have rageblade"

Oh and, just count how many champions that were perfectly fine suddenly becomes OP after its introductionJax Kayle KogMaw MasterYiTryndamere XinZhao , I don't understand why Riot is trying to keep this thing.

13 Comments

TheLittlestLulu3/5/2016, 9:21:07 AM3 votes

There is counterplay though.

Rageblade users counterplay everything else.

Critmaster Garen3/5/2016, 1:34:00 PM2 votes

not a single one of those champions is a tank. theyre either melee carries, bruisers and even a ranged adc.

as far as rageblade itself goes, its not the actual reason tanky on-hit builds are so strong this season. the item itself is a dedicated offensive item and merely gives a lot of attack speed and ad/ap scaling on hit damage. which means it scales better in a purely offensive build.

the real offender is fervor of battle, which grants item Independent 112 physical on hit damage by lategame. meaning even if you build very tanky, fervor will always add a shitload of damage to your auto attacks.

for comparison, rageblades base on hit damage is just 20

its actually not a lot more powerful than, lets say wits end which already adds 40 and reduces your mr with each hit.

rageblade does synergize with this tanky build, but only because of the attack speed it adds to fervors damage. without fervor, rageblade alone wouldnt be nearly as strong in a tanky build.

i think the easiest fix would be to have fervor actually scale with offensive stats. like a % of your total ad.

HailFire Dragon3/5/2016, 8:42:33 PM2 votes

Promotes passive playstyle: "just farm until you have rageblade"

isnt that like....every other major item in the game?

AlwaysByMySide3/5/2016, 9:24:48 AM1 votes

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Yet this item item 3124 is the very definition of what lack of counterplay is:

  • Allows tanks to deal massive amount of damage with just 2 damage items
  • Yeah, dodge that right click
  • Combination of magic and physical damage, on top of that being AoE
  • Promotes passive playstyle: "just farm until you have rageblade"

Oh and, just count how many champions that were perfectly fine suddenly becomes OP after its introductionJax Kayle KogMaw MasterYiTryndamere XinZhao , I don't understand why Riot is trying to keep this thing.

There is not a single tank building Rageblade.

If they're melee, kite and CC them.

Build MR and armour then?

Punish them while they try to farm? Are you going to complain about Nasus too?

L0ve Is Blue3/5/2016, 1:38:30 PM1 votes

It's just the most disgusting item In the game. Gives litteraly every offensive stat in the game (AP AD AS) and add AOE damage.